Thank you very much Jordan -- excellent advice! (I was referring to a start/stop script as you sensed.) Sounds like points 1 & 2 are pretty straight-forward, and I particularly like your additional detail referencing your shell script -- will give it a test on one of my local test boxes. Best Regards, Dakota
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jordan Michaels <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm trying to understand exactly what you're referring to when you say > "running as a service" on a Linux machine. Can I assume you're just > talking about a server that start's up and shut's down at system bootup > and shutdown? > > If that's the case, then what you're really looking for is the jetty > "init" script. On Linux, the init scripts are what are responsible for > starting up and shutting down a "service" when the system boots and > shutsdown. You can also call these init scripts while the system is > running to start, stop, and restart "services" on the fly while the > system is running - just like the windows service manager lets you do. > > Doing a quick google search for "jetty init script", it looks like jetty > itself is packaged in some linux distros, including Fedora, as mentioned > here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393071 > > Assuming you simply want an easy way to start and stop your jetty server > using an "init" script, you could do 1 of 2 things: > > 1) Install this jetty RPM and hijack the init script for your own > purposes - updating the paths that it uses to point to your jetty > ready-to-run instance. > > 2) Copy over the OpenBD configs from the ready-to-run instance to the > default install of the jetty RPM. > > Lastly, if those options are too much of a PITN, you could use the > installer script that Vivio wrote for OpenBD on CentOS. It's located here: > > http://openbd.viviotech.net/ > > Click on the "installer" directory, and download the > openbd-1.0.1_rhel_pl0.sh file. This installer will install Tomcat with > OpenBD, instead of Jetty - but it's fast, stable, and comes with an init > script, the latest version of OpenBD, and the latest version of the > OpenBD Admin. > > HTH > > > Warm regards, > Jordan Michaels > Vivio Technologies > http://www.viviotech.net/ > Open BlueDragon Steering Committee > Adobe Solution Provider > > > Dakota Burns wrote: > > I like the simplicity of Jetty, and modifying the jetty.xml where > > apropriate. A while back I read where Alan Williamson said Jetty was > > stable, high performing, and he preferred it to Tomcat. Are their any > > downfalls to running Jetty versus Tomcat? It seems to me that Jetty is > > a lightweight java server, and ... if it does the job -- why not > > consider as an option for running "as service" with OpenBD in addition > > to the manual "Ready2Run" package, which is great, by the way? I've > > searched Google and this OpenBD group, and running Jetty as a service on > > Linux seems to be problematic -- and not very well documented, but -- I > > may have hit the wrong results when searching. Are either of you > > running Jetty as a service with OpenBD on CentOS or other Linux distro? > > If yes, can you reply with a pointer to a tutorial or steps? > > > > Thanks, > > Dakota > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
